15mm Italian Chapel - Spring Clean Challenge
Trees!
Looking at some sample photos of Tuscany and the Italian countryside, the cypress tree is very common, lining many roads and dotted around the terrain. As an example, here’s a lovely photo of Tuscany.
To really put the chapel and the cemetery into ‘context’, I’m going to need to add some of these to the terrain build. I don’t want to fix the trees into the terrain but rather make them ‘modular’ so that I can set them up separately if needed. To do this, I need to base each tree.
I’ve been planning on working on some Italian terrain and had a couple of bags of cheap cypress trees sat on the shelf. Digging these out along I’ve mounted these on some mdf bases (had to drill a hole through the base first).
With the trees attached to the bases, I’ve applied some polyfilla to provide some weight to the base, hold the tree in place and provide some ‘shape’ to the base.
Once the polyfilla was dry, I’ve gone over with a brown so that the white doesn’t show through.
The final step is to flock the base with a mix of brown and green.
It’s quick, easy and looks OK.
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